Category: College Basketball
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After the craziest start to the NCAA tournament in 20+ years, the madness has died down a bit. The Elite will feature three number 1 seeds, two number 2 seeds, a 3, 4, and a 7. Cheers.
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Rankings as of 2:18pm on 3/21/2012. Sagarin Ratings for games though 3/21/2012. AP rankings from 3/12/2012. In case anyone is interested, here are my rankings after the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament. * indicates the team is in the Sweet Sixteen. Three teams are in the Sweet Sixteen that are not in my…
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My first round entry in the Stat Geek Idol contest was about using decision trees to predict teams that would make it to the Sweet Sixteen. Now that we are down to sixteen teams remaining in the tournament, let’s review how the model performed. Let’s start out with what I consider to be the most impressive…
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The first round of this NCAA tournament was the craziest dating back to 1990, and through two round (I don’t acknowledge the First Four as a round) this is the second craziest tournament over the same time period behind only 1996. 1996 featured a 12 seed in the sweet sixteen as well as a 1…
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An email from a friend of mine: …they have a new “sliding scale” thing for their polls. One question was: “How many of the double digits seeds that won (on Thurs/Friday) will make the Sweet 16?” On one end of the scale was “none” on the other “5 or more”. Seems straightforward enough. Their sliding scale had…
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Measuring The Madness: 2012 Tournament Off To Craziest Start Ever Cheers.
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Stat Geek Idol Sweet Sixteen Cheers.
Stats in the Wild 